Were these games any good? I never played them back in the day since the touch controls seemed really unappealing to me.
>>728967189not really worth your time
I never finished spirit tracks but I remember them being really good, the only real complaints I hear about them any time they're brought up is from shitters complaining that the timed oceanking/whatever dungeons are too stressful
>>728967189Pretty decent games.Lovely tech demos of what the DS can do.Phantom Hourglass is to WW what MM is to OoT. A weird and whacky, oddly surreal adventure in a world that is not hyrule so they can bend rules a bit with how they run things. However, it's clearly a rough attempt at what the DS can do, so they sometimes can feel a bit weird, and the game's attempt at creating an eriee atmosphere falls flat when they reuse the same generic creepy music everywhere. All in all, a solid 6+ game.Spirit Tracks is a much polished game overall. Better dungeons, plot, music, items, minigames, pretty much everything. Also has one of the strongest plots and characterizations in the franchise if you care for that. A solid 7+ and maybe even an 8 during it's peaks.The control scheme is never really an issue outside of ONE singular instance. The game is responsive, creative with the ds and never really demands anything too complex to feel like a chore. And hell, there are games like TWEWY or Ninja GAiden DS that play entirely with the touch screen and are far more demanding. That said, SS has the pan flute which i'll admit it does kinda suck. I've learned to play with it and know its quirks, but i can tell it was a pretty crappy addition.>TLDRYeah, they are good. Play both.
I got filtered by the ocean king temple and the hand cramps.
>>728967189better than modern zelda. i think the temple of the ocean king is a neat idea but execution was unfun. spirit tracks I think the only bad part is riding the train but the overworld music is so good I cant complain.
>>728967189I thought they were great. I'd like to replay them some day.
They're decent, worth playing if you've already played the classic LoZ games and want more.There're romhacks out there that convert the games to traditional controls which made them less of a chore.
>>728967189Phantom Hourglass had a lot I didn't like, but it also had some great items and good new ideas. Spirit Tracks feels like a more polished followup and is unironically one of my favorite Zeldas despite hating touch controls, but it still has qualities that tend to filter people beyond that. Touch controls suck, but I'd still recommend at least trying both.
>>728970984The idea of train tracks serving as a prison for a demon is genius.
>>728967189Otherwise great games made mediocre due to the retarded decision to make controls touch only rather than optional. There were other retarded gimmicks too (blowing on the mic and closing the screen) but neither have the magnitude of the touch controls.On a side note, the online multiplayer in phantom hourglass was one of the most rage inducing games ever. I loved it
